My new chapbook, Extinction Song, launches with Tupelo Press on May 1st. Pre-order available now: tupelopress.org/bookstore/p/...

I’ve got two new poems out in Image. Here’s a teaser, but you can read both poems in full on the website — or order the print issue! imagejournal.org/issue-124

Thank god one of these universities has finally grown a backbone.

'Columbia Has Lost Something It May Never Regain': Outrage as the University Yields to Trump's Demands www.commondreams.org/news/trump-c...

This is why they hate us. Because we make things. Because we resist their structures of power, and do so with intelligence. Because they know, as Shelley says, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." This one's mine, from Winter, Glossolalia (BSPG, 2022). #smallpoemsunday.

“[W]hat we are witnessing is not just an attack on academia or a set of fiscal reforms or a painful political rebalancing. It is an attack on the conditions that allow free thought to exist. We may not yet know its full cost, but we will feel its consequences for decades.” @meghanor.bsky.social

“We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.”

I disagree with parts of this article, but one thing it gets right is the absolute cowardice of university administrators in the midst of an all out onslaught unfolding against higher education. Saying nothing will not save anyone. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...

“If someone legally in the United States can be grabbed from his home for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a drastically different country from the one we inhabited before Trump’s inauguration.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...

The arrest of Mr. Khalil represents a clear instance of retaliation against constitutionally protected free speech. This is an attempt to diminish support for Palestinian people and those suffering in Gaza (not to be confused with support for Hamas). www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/n...

I hear this is a pretty great contest, with some excellent winners from previous years. Submit!

My poem, “The Field Which Had Been a Meadow Once,” is in THE LAST MILKWEED, out now from @tupelopress.bsky.social. The poem takes its title from a poem in @joriegraham.bsky.social’s book TO 2040 (which I highly recommend) and leans into dialogue with Robert Duncan. #poem #newpoem #poetry

“Algae pushes north and farther north.”

david lynch DARK DEEP DARKNESS

Deadline TOMORROW!

Poets: where are people submitting these days? I've got a few pieces I want to send out next month, including some from my forthcoming chap. Curious if there are any places that might not be on my list.

Perhaps our eyes tire & slow so our other senses finally have a chance to breathe. Yet another poem from Frederick Smock

"When the 'I' appears in Adams' poems, it’s not to offer the stamp of emotional authenticity, but to take advantage of the many masks that a skilled raconteur can adopt": Chris Waddington reviews PAST LIVES, poems by @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social via On The Seawall bit.ly/4anWrMK

A poem for #smallpoemsunday. Robert Hass’s “Iowa, January,” one of my favorite small poems in the language.

You know when you are driving through Massachusetts and then you hit the Vermont border and everything feels calmer and greener? And then you realize it’s because there are no billboards along the road? That’s how it feels going from FB to Bluesky.

Finally a bit of warm weather. And by warm, I mean, it’s 34° F.

There are probably better ways to resist, but right now, I’m just trying to control what I can control. I’m turning to the local rather than the global. I’m tending children, animals, plants, and art. I’m making poems and good food. I’m coaxing good into the world, where I can.

Gah. This is going to be such a gnarly year for book releases. Will you please shout out your forthcoming books so we can spread some hope/joy/excitement?

Happy MLK Day to all. Power to you.

DC from the air. (Well, really the VA side of the Potomac.)

This week! DC! Busboys and Poets, K St location, Sunday, 5 PM. @busboysandpoets.bsky.social

Had a couple of poems accepted to ring in the new year. 🥂

Joseph Brodsky’s “Star of the Nativity,” from his Nativity Poems (FSG, 2001, but originally published much earlier). A holiday post for #smallpoemsunday on this day, the shortest of the year. Happy belated #soltice!

Another short piece for #smallpoemsunday, this one from A. H. Jerriod Avant’s MUSCADINE (Four Way, 2023). #poem #poetry #shortpoem

Krystal Anali Vasquez’s Lady Without Land is out now! I had the distinct honor to blurb the book, which is so smart (and hilarious), and I’m reading with Krystal next month in DC to celebrate its release (Busboys & Poets, K St). #newbook #novel #fiction #hybridgenre #latinxlit

Not a UK resident, otherwise I’d totally apply to this. Maybe you should?

Naomi Shihab Nye.

There's something very Blakean about the role of "magic" in Robert Eric Shoemaker's poems, a kind of imaginative thinking that comprises resistance to the cold, mechanical operations of economy and ideology: "Why magic? Money no work. [System, system.]"

Here's the beginning to a long-ish poem, "Pastoral," which appeared in Tupelo Quarterly / @tupelopress.bsky.social. It's the last I'll post by way of introduction to Bluesky, but I've got some new poems coming soon! Read the full poem here: www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-feat... #poetry #poem

Timothy Donnelly’s “Jonah,” from The Problem of the Many (Wave, 2019). #smallpoemsunday #shortpoemsunday #poetry

The kids are excited for tonight’s festivities, whatever they might be… Merry Krampusnacht!

Alright but this is two words

Not my regular content, but the millennial in me couldn’t resist. 😋

Read Forrest Gander’s Mojave Ghost this weekend. One of his best.

Reading & interview with the great Robert Hayden is up at the Brockport Writers Forum YT page. This exchange feels very much locked in its time--would love the chance to hear how his views might have changed or perhaps intensified in the ensuing decades, chissà. ❄️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hvF...

One for #shortpoemsunday. A haiku by the great Kobayashi Issa, translated by Robert Hass.

One from Christian Wiman. #smallpoemsunday

Thanks to @kelliagodon.bsky.social for sharing this poem, the title piece from my first book, which seems so distant now…

Really, this niche is the global majority, per the above UN survey: "Four out of five people around the world (80 percent) want more climate action from their country." That'd be more than six billion of us.

Bluesky is the Vermont of the internet, and that is a good thing.

An excerpt from my poem “Circles,” which appeared as part of a folio in Tupelo Quarterly, along with an interview by the great Henk Rossouw. www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-feat...

Here's the companion poem to "Action in the Infinitive," which I posted earlier today. This one is called "Infinite Gyre of Possible Ends" and also appeared in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social, with thanks again to @doramalech.bsky.social! (Click image for alt-text.)

New poem in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social with thanks to @doramalech.bsky.social!! I’ll post it’s brother this afternoon.